Alternative Data Funds

Does anyone know anything about alternative data hedge funds or can provide some color on exactly what it is they do and how they do it?

What the work is like?

What firms are in this space?

What skills (hard and soft) are required to be successful and what the typical background of an alt data analyst would be?

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